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What Does the Stomach Do? Your stomach, which is attached to the end of the esophagus, is a stretchy sack shaped like the letter J. It has three important jobs: to store the food you've eaten; to break down the food into a liquidy mixture; to slowly empty that liquidy mixture into the small intestine
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Take a journey through the human digestive system and discover how your mouth, stomach, intestines, pancreas and other body parts hep break down your food!
Oesophagus: connects your mouth to your stomach; Stomach: a muscular bag that mixes food and drink with acid; Small intestine: where nutrients are absorbed into your blood
18 mar 2015 · Your stomach contains acid that helps break down the food you eat so your body can get the nutrients it needs from the food. Because we don’t want to work with actual stomach acid (gross!) we are going to use white vinegar, which is still an acid but not nearly as strong (or gross!) as stomach acid.
The adult stomach has a very small volume when empty but can expand to hold up to 1.5 litres of food when full. The inner wall of the stomach secretes hydrochloric acid to help kill bacteria and, along with proteases enzymes, aids in the digestion of food.
12 lis 2022 · Learn about the human digestive system for kids that moves food from their mouth, through their esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and out the other end as poop.
Step – 3 The Stomach – Through Oesophagus food comes into the Stomach. The stomach wall secretes gastric juices that include powerful enzymes that help break down food into a type of thick soup called chyme .
